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Guided Tour of Matera Sassi


Discovering Matera, the city of the Sassi which has the title of European Capital of Culture for 2019 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ancient stony districts are characterized by houses carved into the limestone rock and rock churches that make it unique in the world. This natural conformation, which evokes biblical scenarios, has always made them ideal sets for important films, most recently the film by Ben Hur.


Private Transfer From Bari to Matera


Thanks to our experience gained over many years of service in the sector and the reliability of our drivers, in possession of a professional license and registered in the register of drivers, we are able to offer an excellent service at competitive prices. Our cars are synonymous with quality, exclusively Mercedes cars. Our rates are among the most competitive in the rental service with driver. Professionalism, comfort and punctuality.


Ape Calessino Tour Matera Lungo


Matera is one of the oldest cities in the world whose territory preserves evidence of human settlements starting from the Paleolithic and without interruptions up to the present day. It represents an extraordinary page written by man through the millennia of this very long history. World Heritage Site since 1993 and European Capital of Culture in 2019. With the classic and typical Ape Calessino (tuk tuk), an Italian myth, much appreciated by families, especially with children in wheelchairs, we will cross the Old Town and the Sassi, as they are very tiring on foot, especially in the summer, whizzing through the streets and characteristic alleys, making small stops for photos and videos and to visit churches in the squares and characteristic Case Grotte (Case Museo).


MATERA tour from Bari


with this amazing TOUR you will discover the capital of european culture for 2019 ! pick up 10am from your accomodation !


Walking Tour Matera


You will visit Matera with a local tour guide that knows the city and will lead you to discover it as only an inhabitant can do.


English Guided Tour in the Sassi of Matera


English Guided tour in the Sasso Caveoso, Sasso Barisano and City Center During our guided tour we are going to see the amazing old city of Matera. We are going to visit Matera Underground. It is an underground complex in the historical center of Matera, dug into the rock. An underground tour, through different trade activities from the Middle Ages. The last part of the tour includes the entrance in the original cave house that will show you how the poor people lived in the past in the Sassi of Matera with original furniture of that time.


Private walking tour in Matera


Private tour with a multilingual tour guide that will lead just you discovering the city and its history.


Matera Day Trip from Bari


Matera has been elected Capital of Culture 2019. This experience departs from Bari and you will be transferred to Matera by comfortable minivan. Once in Matera, start your walking tour from the old town with a magnificent view of the Sasso Barisano. Appreciated and visited for its stones, Matera also offers many other pearls of beauty and culture.


James Bond in Matera


Walk along via delle Beccherie, the connecting road between via Duomo and the splendid Romanesque Cathedral of the thirteenth century. The Cathedral, through its stairways and typical narrow streets of the stony districts, you can visit the Barisano stone with its refined architecture that was the backdrop for the daring scenes shot in 2019; Via Madonna delle Virtù, a road that runs along the Gravina di Matera, 007's favorite place for chases with the legendary Aston Martin; Via Muro, the most cinematic street in Matera, chosen in more than 70 years by famous national and international directors, most recently Cary Fukunaga; From Via Muro the most incredible takes shot in Piazza San Pietro Caveoso; The tour ends at Piazza Pascoli, one of the most fascinating places among the stones, chosen for the construction of the Hotel Balcony build, the hotel room of the legendary special agent


Bread-making workshop in Matera


Our experiential tour offers a hands-on bread-making workshop, complete with an introduction to the company’s rich history, spanning four generations in the local area. The experience begins with an explanation of the ingredients used, such as the finest local semolina and natural sourdough starter. From there, you'll step into the bakery’s workshop, where the master baker will guide you through bread-making: kneading, proofing, shaping the dough, and applying the unique stamp that defines Matera bread. As part of the process, you'll have the chance to roll up your sleeves and craft your own loaf of bread. Once baked, your creation will be yours to take home as a delicious memento. The tour concludes with a tasting of local specialties in a cozy, designated area where you can unwind and savor the region's flavors. This is more than a workshop—it’s a journey into the culinary traditions of Matera.


Matera Underground Cultural Sassi Tour


Explore the ancient city built into the rock, discover "Sassi di Matera" in a 2 hours walking tour, with a licensed local guide and visit an exclusive Underground site, run by our team: you will have the chance to observe the city through the eyes of a historian, who will show you not only the artistic beauty, but also the social, cultural and political value of a truly magical place. During the cultural tour, it will be possible to visit cisterns, rock churches or cave dwellings, also walking on movie locations. This will allow to experience history of the city, its internal dynamics and the global influences that have affected Matera over the centuries. We offer an enveloping tale that will enthrall young and old alike in our culture. The tour is a continuous discovery and is ideal, as well, for people interested in history and curious tourists who want to enjoy the beauty and uniqueness of the place, beyond the postcard image. Tour is limited to small groups of up to 15 people.


Tour of Matera through the millennia


We will discover together what was once defined as the "national shame". Today, Matera, with its Sassi and the Park of rock churches, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993. Millennia of history and almost uninterrupted human presence have made Matera today a city that has so much to show; we will try to tell it and get to know it.


Matera balloon flight for small groups


Our company was created to promote flight, air, nature and southern excellence. Southern Italy is a unique territory, yet to be discovered, and the balloon is the best way to admire it from a new perspective, upside down. The experience of our team will lead you towards the discovery of the true and authentic soul made in the south, made up of food and wine excellence, typical crafts and sites of historical and cultural interest. We are a true airline, the only Italian company in southern Italy authorized to perform commercial flights with passengers, as we have a license issued by ENAC, the National Civil Aviation Authority and specific aeronautical insurance.


Matera Cooking Class


Set amongst the unique and beautiful nature of the Basilicata countryside, the farmhouse was built using traditional and local materials. The farm includes over 2000 olive trees and around 300 orange trees as well as organic fruit and vegetable plots that provide eggplants, zucchini, tomatoes, artichokes, chicory, lemons, cherries, pomegranates and much, much more. Guests will learn to cook in the farm's professional kitchen.


Matera to Dream in an Immersive and Performative Experience


Matera reveals itself in Palazzo Acito, a 17th century building open to curious and enterprising travellers. In its rooms you will live a unique experience: the city of the Sassi is all there, in 'La Secretissima camera de lo core', a whale's belly to cross, a labyrinth that will tell you about an unprecedented Matera. Accompanied by two exceptional guides, Luciana and Massimo, actors from the Teatro dei Sassi, you will have a sensorial and engaging journey to the places of citizens' hearts: moving 40 works by national and international artists, listening to ancient stories, legends whispered between talking objects and emotional maps up to Il Giuoco dei Sissi: a dice, 7 cuckoos as placeholders and Wonder cards and of Restlessness, keys to access the language, the mysteries, the sayings, the places of the city. But it doesn't end here because the game continues outside, in the historic center of Matera, in search of those secrets revealed by the cards. And if your answers are correct you will receive a welcome surprise.


Photographic tour by minivan, the Sassi of Matera and the park of the Murgia of Matera.


A unique experience, the data speak for themselves in the last 5 years the city of Matera has recorded a tourist increase of 400%. Thus standing at the top of the most visited cities in the world for its international tourism. Matera with its ten thousand years of history for culture, tradition and hospitality stands at an increasingly important growth. Matera is included in the top ten of the most beautiful Italian cities, "to be visited absolutely at least once in a lifetime". Seeing is believing!


Tour of Matera and Altamura


Our tours are unique because in addition to discovering the wonders of Puglia, they give you the chance to experience all the experiences that characterize the places you visit, try the most authentic flavors.


Secret Matera Sassi (Private Tour)


We will visit a beautiful UNESCO site like the Sassi of Matera: SASSI represents an extraordinary urban ecosystem able to perpetuate the most distant prehistoric ways of the past to live in caves up to modernity. Known as "the Underground City", Matera is famous for being one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. On October 17, 2014, Matera was declared the European Capital of Culture for 2019.


Matera & Alberobello Full Day Tour


Explore the 3 districts of Matera: Civita’ and the most fascinating part of the old town, named “Sassi”: Sassi Barisano and Caveoso. The guide will pick you up and bring you to Matera where you will start the guided walking tour. Stop 1 – MATERA – 2 hours. The stones of Matera is a real cultural landscape, capable of perpetuating from the most distant prehistoric past to the modern times.During the walking tour which lasts approx. 2 hours, our professional guides will show you the Sassi and take you to visite inside of a cave house to see the tools, the furniture, the lifestyle of the people that lived in THE SASSI OF MATERA , will take you back in time. transfer – 1 hour Stop 2 Alberobello 90 minutes The first trulli showed up in the prehistoric age being part of an ancient settlement in the Itria Valley.Still, the oldest trulli we know today are in Alberobello, dating back to the 14th Century. A visite inside of a trullo will show you the magic of this place.


Matera half day


A day full of emotions! The visit of the Sassi of Matera will be a unique experience! You will have the opportunity to travel back to the past to the Prehistoric era. Our team is waiting for you!